Actually @amazaheri I was reading a book with projects for kids and learning with with Raspberry Pi and it has really solid 5 star reviews on Amazon and it's called Adventures in Raspberry Pi. I think @danamlewis was looking for someone to have their kid learn The Pi and that seems like a good source (also possibly Lego Mindstorms which I learned to program on when I was like 10), so that might be good. But anyway, what I meant to say instead of being so long-winded was apparently in that book they referenced a way to make a Lego Raspberry Pi 2 case for your kid with instructions! I think that is so awesome and it would be a positive thing to have for your equipment! I would have loved it if I was a kid! Instructions are here! http://thedailybrick.co.uk/instructions/Building%20Instructions%20%5bRaspberry%20Pi%202%5d.html

Yeah it's a positive thing to associate with the stuff that comes along with diabetes.

I would share the book with you all but like I signed this agreement that says I can't and on every book I download there is this really scary legal notice telling me the legal penalties if I did. It's like fingerprinted in a way that they can figure out it's me, even though digital rights management is removed. However I am glad to have that service. Yay for having a print related disability (courtesy of a rare autoimmune disease)

@justinr1234 I've used both, Think Medtronic needs to do some work on Enlite for it to be less of an annoyance and more of a help, The Dexcom is 95% of the time with in a few points of the meter readings, Enlite for me had alot of accuracy issues where isig would drop like a rock in the middle of the night resulting in my pump suspending when my bg was just fine resulting in me waking up in the 200's lets just say I haven't had TS turned on in a while but I don't use Enlite anymore anyway too many issues with bad sensors.

@justinr1234 We’ve switched back and forth (medtronic -> dexcom -> medtronic). The medtronic sensor is smaller and less painful (in both my and my daughter’s estimation). We have seen dropouts like @stavlor mentioned, but those have been rare for us. Otherwise, accuracy seems fairly similar.

@ps2 Yeah other than the sensor issues i had when it was working it worked well, before the last order i got of them i had maybe 1-2 bad sensors out of the 3 month supply but in the last batch i had almost 2 boxes that lasted less than 3 days so i said enough and moved to Dexcom

+1 re all related to Medtronic sensors issues. I used Medtronic before Enlite, Navigator, and Dexcom (G4) - Medtronic did absolute worst in terms of catching swings (drops or surges) and overall accuracy was very low. I would have a hard time imagining using AP with their older sensors, but presumably Enlite & later generations are better.

@stavlor yep. I have a friend who did a 640G trial and thought it was much better than previous gen Medtronic sensors; she's also about to start a 670G trial. I suggested she still wear her Dexcom to compare accuracy & she's planning to do that so we can compare w/ new sensors.

True about proven in clinical studies but there can always be flukes with products. I like having time to make decisions with expensive purchases whether my insurance company pays for it or I do. Like for example the Navigator was the best CGM I used, but it was designed like an electronics device that you would but doe

But for 10 bucks at Walmart

Sorry typing on my phone *buy

I also don't fit into the "typical" T1D profile and I'm ineligible for clinical studies for the very rare form of autoimmune autonomic neuropathy that I have, because of diabetes. The NIH/US government pours millions of dollars for the rare disease that I have that was discovered in 2000 on US government funds. It's really unfortunate that I can't participate in that kind of stuff cause I'm an outlier and exceptional.

Also cause I don't fit into the typical profile some things work for me and tons of things don't. I'm really in no man's land

So far the ganglionic nicotinic acetylcholine receptor antibody is the only proven antibody to cause autoimmune autonomic neuropathy (there are several though that are consider markers) and only 40-50% of those with my disease have those antibodies. I'm extremely lucky that this has been proven, the test exists, and most importantly, I tested positive for it at abnormal levels.

Otherwise this stuff that I am going through would likely be blamed on my diabetes.

Yeah while I have no pain today (I have a freakishly unusually high pain tolerance too...like pain doesn't really "register" in my brain unless it's extreme. For example like I have broken my arm and foot before on separate occasions and I have used them relatively normally for like even weeks until my parents forced me to "go to the doctor" and get X-Rays), Lyrica (medicine) is like impairing both my short and long term memory and making me sleepy. I also think my other disease, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (which is distinct from diabetes-related garbage by the fact that it causes noticable progressive muscle weakness which would be found in a neurological exam), is flaring up, as it tends to with heat, cause I feel "weaker" (I'm not absolutely sure though) and I am getting abnormal nerve sensations, like "cooling" in my feet, so I'm not sure yet if I should contact my neurologist and rheumatologist. Also, my heart rate when I exert myself is ridiculously high today too but maybe I'm not hydrating myself or something. When I was just standing up and it was like 156 beats per minute. To top it off, I'm out of tincture of opium, for a dehydrating GI problem, and my GI doctor who writes the prescription is out of the office. The hospital that I see her at is a cancer hospital so her nurse is trying to find a doctor with the "right prescription pad", as it is a very controlled substance and the doctors at the GI center don't usually have that type of prescription pad. Additionally her nurse practitioner told me to take Immodium, which doesn't do **** for my GI problem. Lomotil (when I take "double the recommended dose", as my GI doctor has written the prescription before) kind of works and I'm out of that.

I can only get "6 tests per day" from my endo and I'm "on the radar" with my insurance company (Medicare--I'm on disability and it's really only my business but I intend on getting off someday) cause I get "more than 3 test strips per day". Like my endo "medical record" gets "audited" (even several times) and I have to provide "proof" that I test 6x/day, with records, no matter what, and I cannot have fewer than 6 records written down. Also, if I don't provide the records to my endo Medicare goes after my endo, NOT ME

Even with severe gastroparesis and autoimmune autonomic failure, my endo is only able to justify 6 tests per day

But I have phenomenal secondary insurance (completely private), which includes health, prescription, dental, and vision. I was able to stay on past the age of 26, as a disabled dependent.

But if there is no "billing code" for HCPCS for like Medicare (such as with the 530G--not CGMs) My secondary can't pay for the "denied item from Medicare" as there was no EOB. Hence I would have to pay completely out of pocket for the 530G.

I have a 530G but I upgraded my pump before my warranty ran out and I was "entitled to" Medicare.

Yeah, I got this letter from Medtronic saying they had a dispute with Medicare and if I was using Enlite sensors they would pay for it until Medicare fixed their garbage

That went on for like 6 months apparently cause Medicare takes forever.

Yeah, before the HCPCS code was different for the Enlite, probably cause Medtronic wanted more money for reimbursement. And they said to me that it would be "unethical" for them to change the code for reimbursement

Like I have an out-of-warranty 530G, and Medicare paid for my t:slim, because I had an out-of-warranty pump and I had just gotten medicare like 4 months before that.

Like, my date for my "disability decision" goes back to when I was 21 (I'm 26 now). I applied once, and I didn't have to "appeal" any decisions because it was approved on "the first try". Also, I applied a month before I turned 24 because to stay on my (currently) secondary insurance, I had to prove that I was "disabled" and that was really the only objective proof that was strict and not subjective (the SSA has strict requirements). Also, when you fill out the forms required for my secondary insurance to stay on past the age of 25, they ask you if you are on disability and get Medicare.

You could program a controller in MATLAB with articles from IEEE, and using that data, "detect flukes". Using a hotspot on your phone and having WiFi on the Raspberry Pi, you could SSH between MATLAB and the Pi

I was desperately checking my phone, and I was like yay OMG I probably have what it takes to be an engineer (but I still had to get through my weed out classes like Circuits, Electromagnetics, and Electronics :/ )

And like not caring at all that I was on a trip. Then all I did that trip was plan out in my mind how I was going to get through my next set of weed out classes with some of my friends who also passed.

@justinr1234 Be careful about over-calibrating (too many calibrations) the 530g in the first 12-24 hours, though. For some reason we’ve gotten it quite confused when doing so, and the tech we talked to admitted it can get wonky if given too many calibration points in the 12 hours or so. I view that as more of a software bug than anything.

I've been on multiple vacations like that. Not giving one **** that I was on vacation, seeing my grades, and being elated. Also, cause I have multiple medical problems I would be like looking back "how the **** did I manage to do that?!" and then planning out my next semester.

Yeah, if you sweat a lot I would recommend kinesiology tape (elastic cloth tape), particularly the Rocktape H2O version which have double the amount of adhesive as the standard Rocktape, which seems to work well. I used to run in Houston in the "dead heat of summer" with an Omnipod on my abdomen and it would stay perfectly fine using kinesiology tape. After I sweated profusely after a long run, I would wait for the tape to "dry off" from my sweat, and then I would remove it and replace it with new tape.

Also, tape can't compress, once it's applied, so you want to "stretch your skin" (for example flexing your abdomen out and bending it like you are doing the "exercise technique" known as "bridges") and apply it while you are doing that.

Also, flovent inhaler sprayed on your skin supposedly helps (I get it from a sketchy online pharmacy that's overseas, but I'm just applying it to my skin and supposedly the meds from there are legit, but I don't go further than that with taking risks.)

This is expen$ive (made in France) but there are custom meter cases, even for the particular meter you use, and you can personalize the meter case. I want one of these. http://www.diabete-seven.com/en/

@TC2013@justinr1234 because you live in hot climates and you might deal with sweating a lot, look at these posts from "Darryl" (control+f or command+f). They're gold. He also created the text messaging service that interfaces with Nightscout and he is an engineer.

Using Freedom, Freedom Lite and Omnipod PDM with same strips. Found huge reading variations a month ago and learned that old strips don't work. This was mid-May and strips dated 12/2014 and earlier were inaccurate. Used a bottle labled 5/2015 and they were within 3 points of each other. Saw no difference on Freedom/Freedom Lite, but PDM read somewhat lower. Still, can't beat the tiny amount of blood needed and the ability to keep adding blood.

Back to DIYPS/OpenAPS. I have the RPi2 and the Carelink USB on the way. Have the 522 pump. Do I need BT4 on the RPi2 to get the data from the xDrip app? I didn't see that mentioned, but I imagine that is how it is being done. Any particular brand known to work well?